Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals contains a series of movie segments and activities to assess or practice grammar points through fun, challenging exercises. Here you will find the movie segments, the lesson plans, printable worksheets with answer key for each activity, and the tips to develop your own grammar activities with the DVDs you have at home. New activities are posted regularly. Teaching grammar with movie segments is inspiring and highly motivating.

Oct 6, 2008

While You Were Sleeping: Reported Speech

This a very funny scene. Your students will enjoy it a lot. Tell me if you like it or give suggestions by leaving a comment, please.

Before you watch the segment:Talk to a partner about the following situations. Decide what you would do:

1) What would you do if you saw someone falling on the subway tracks? Justify it.

2) If you saved someone's life, would you expect a financial reward? Why/Why not?

3) Would you hide a secret in order not to hurt a stranger's feelings? Why/Why not?

Now watch the movie segment and decide who said each of the following lines:Lucy (Sandra Bullock)

A Doctor

A Nurse

A Police Officer

1) Will you marry me? ____________________________

2) Are you okay? _______________________________

3) There’s a train coming and it’s fast. ________________

4) Are you family? ______________________________

5) She’s his fiancee. _____________________________

6) I need to ask you a few questions. _________________

7) He is in a coma. ______________________________

8) He was pushed from the platform at the train station. ___

9) She jumped on the tracks. ______________________

10) She saved his life. _____________________________
Now rewrite the sentences, using reported speech:

EX: 1) Lucy asked if he would marry her.

2) Lucy asked if he was okay.
Answer key:3. Lucy said there was a train coming and it was fast.4. A doctor asked if she was family.5. A nurse said she was his fiancee. 6. A police officer said he needed to ask Lucy a few questions.7. A doctor said he was in a coma.8. Lucy said that he had been pushed from the platform at the train station.9. A police officer said that she had saved his life.10. A police officer said that she had jumped on the tracks.Grammar Goal: Reported Speech
• Choose an attractive movie segment with several characters

Dear Claudio,Thank you for sharing this great activity. It worked super with my students. I did it after we worked on a reading activity where there is some dialogue, so I wanted to focus on Reported Speech, your activity helped integrating the four skills.I would like to know if it is possible to get the video clip without the subtitles as I think it would be an useful follow up to encourage learners to understand without them.Thanks once againDebbie

Hi! What a great activity, thank you! However, I'm not sure whether I haven't managed to see the whole clip, or whether I'm right in thinking that sentences 5 -10 are not heard in this segment. Could you let me know please?

Also, I wanted to point out that there's a slip in the answer key (nº6) "need" should be "needed".

Thanks for lettingme know about the typo. It has been corrected. About the segment, I just checked it again and I did hear the sentences you mentioned. I don't know what might have happened.Thanks for warning me, though.

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I'm a teacher at Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia, Brazil. I'm a Branch Coordinator and Teacher Trainer as well. I really like movies and seeing them with "different" eyes, trying to see how I can use them in my classroom. Recently, I have dedicated my ideas to grammar activities with movie segments because, apparently, teachers use movies for many purposes, but grammar. Working with movie segments fosters students' production and interest. I truly believe that grammar exercises should be attractive. I have just developed a new blog for movie segments to enhance topic based classes, focusing on conversation, listening comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. If you have suggestions for the blogs and the activities, just say it!